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When I was a teenager, I used to take the bus from the suburbs into downtown Seattle with my brother and our friends. We’d go down there to visit the record stores, but we’d also wander around looking into art gallery windows and stuff. One time a friend of mine, Colin, told me a trick to remember the order of the streets downtown.

In downtown Seattle, the north/south streets are numbered, 1st, 2nd, etc. The streets running east/west are named. The bus I rode went north on 4th St, so it was handy to be able to remember the order of the east/west streets, to know when your stop was coming up.

Here’s the trick:

Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest

Heading north through downtown, there are two streets that start with J, two that start with C, two that start with M, etc.

So the order of the streets are:

Jesus – Jefferson and James
Christ – Cherry and Columbia
Made – Marion and Madison
Seattle – Spring and Seneca
Under – University and Union
Protest – Pike and Pine

See how easy? I want to come up with something similar to be able to remember the street order of the big main streets in the area of Orange County I travel through a lot, but not enough to have the street order memorized. Here are the streets:

Brookhurst
Euclid
Harbor
Fairview
Bristol

So I need an easy-to-remember combination of words that start with B E H F B.

Help me out, here.

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